At age 9, Evelyn Chumbow was trafficked
overseas from Cameroon to become a domestic
worker for a family in Maryland. She worked
from 6 a.m. to midnight, seven days a week, was
forced to sleep on the floor without a room of
her own and regularly beaten. Each day, she
took her employer’s children to school, but
was not allowed to attend. At 17 she escaped,
but had no identification and didn’t know her
birthday or age. Although child labor has
decreased globally in recent years, child labor
in domestic work has increased by 9 percent in
the past four years. Nearly half of child
domestic workers are under age 14, and nearly
all are girls. Read more at the Solidarity
Center.